An innovative and eye-catching visual approach, combined with concise delivery of information

People and groups we work with

We work with a wide range of people and communities - including those who are vulnerable and hard to reach: multicultural groups, children/young people, older people, disabled people and those with long term illnesses, people with learning difficulties, people who use mental health services and support, people who use drug and alcohol support services, lesbian and gay and single sex support groups.

Our films can be distributed across whole communities, borough councils, hospitals, GP practices and polyclinics, schools, colleges and universities. They can be shown at national and local cinemas, on TV and through government funded, council and third sector information centres, websites and local libraries, galleries, museums and exhibition centres. They can also be shown via local and community organisations including self-help groups, disability groups, youth clubs, lunch clubs and places of worship.

We have a wide variety of organisations and networks that we work with and we can offer help and advice.

Consultation services

If you are thinking of creating your own film project, then we supply consultation services, where we listen intently to your ideas, offer advice and strategies to empower those ideas and help with applications for funding and guidance in finding partnerships.

We Also Provide

A filmmaking service aimed specifically at enabling and supporting service users and participants to film, edit and produce their own projects to a professional level.

We have a proven track record of empowering people to work together to make their own films. Our knowledge base and skill sets are transferable to all people within any organisation or community, because our service is a person-centred approach.

Customer/participant endorsement of initiatives and services

Service user/project participant consultation, involvement & training

Team building experience & skill development for participants & staff

Facilitation in the improvement of communication & self assessment for individual participants & staff, community groups, organisations & service providers

Sonic Vistas is a music and visual art projection project for an ensemble of deaf and disabled musicians, initiated and led by Ivan Riches. Integrating audio, visuals & access via AMT (assistive music technology), it has become a new, crossover art-form.

The performance with projected visuals & use of AMT was a totally live audio-visual show by a deaf rapper, disabled & severely physically disabled musicians, for an audience of deaf, disabled & non-disabled people at Mayor of London's Liberty Festival 2015 on the 26th of July. Part of that performance was captured by Channel 4 and shown as part of their Nation Paralympic Day programme aired on Saturday 2nd of August 2015.

talk about…Art is a new, creative and educational initiative, based in South East London, aiming to promote a greater interest in the visual arts among people of all generations, but particularly teenagers and young people.

Students from St Matthew Academy in Lewisham, worked with us to produce reponses to works of art by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. These responses were then incorporated into an exhibition, using 'Augmented Reality' via the LAYAR App, as enhanced digital content.

Throughout 2013-15, Age Exchange worked across London to record interviews with members of the London public. The focus was on how families were affected by the conflict then, and across subsequent generations. People shared immensely moving personal histories, passed down from within their family. Age Exchange worked in partnership with many fine organisations across London to carry out open days, recording 130 interviews, as well as digitalising 5300 personal letters, photographs and period artefacts, brought by interviewees to the activity. This unparalleled collection of Londoners' family First World War histories will rest with the international archive Europeana 1914-1918, for the learning of future generations. These personal stories of parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts from across the Home Front, the battlefields, skies and the sea, inspired this installation as well as a new play.

The ongoing artwork premiered, in its 'dual-screen' format, at The Bridewell Theatre, London, August 2014
and in its 'single-screen' cinema format, at The British Film Institute Southbank, London, October 2014.

It was finally completed in January 2015 and shown at: APT Gallery, London; Alexandra Palace, London; Vestry House Museum, London; The University of Oxford; The University of Essex.

Chinatown, My Chinatown is an old 1910 song by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz, here reinterpreted by John Kelly, Mik Scarlet and Matthew Woodcock. This is a Drake Music commission for disabled musicians participating in the Connect and Collaborate London programme. This project was initiated, arranged, recorded and mixed by Drake Music associate musician Gary Day.

The piece is played on a range of music technology including iPhone, IPads and switch for synth Vox. The iPad and iPhone apps include GarageBand, FingerJam and Sunrizer. Some of the lyrics were rewritten by John Kelly, inspired by his experiences of London's Chinatown.